May 2, 2005
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B"H
Joe Blogh is back on the G'Island (pron = guyland), thanks be to the LORD. We had a nice visit overall. This is not to say that there were no problems, but taken as a whole, it was a good week.
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Pesach (Passover) has concluded. More accurately I should say, The Feast of Unleavened Bread is over. Passover is only one day which is immediately followed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread. I mentioned previously that I was going to post some comments or teaching on this and for sure I still intend to. I won't make any long and unnecessary excuses about why I put this off. Instead. I'll double my efforts to be more dilligent about these things in the future.
Thanks to all of you who read these posts and leave such nice warm comments. You know who you are!!
Blessings in Yeshua (Jesus),
Shlomo
Comments (3)
I would like to know more about it!!! Someone came to bradlees school to talk about Pesach and handed out noisemakers. Thanks for the Yiddish info.... I can be really dumb sometimes
B"H
Hey there Nicci,
Hmmm, Pesach & noisemakers???? The festival that is usually associated with noisemakers is Purim. Read the book of Esther for the whole story. Here's the short version.
In Persia under the ruler Xerxes, Hadassah (the Hebrew name of Esther) is made queen. Haman, a high ranking offical in the Persian government seeks to have all the Jewish people exterminated. Mordecai, her uncle, gives Hadassah advice on behalf of the Jewish people. He says that perhaps she has come to the kingdom for this very purpose. As it turns out, GOD not only uses Hadassah to influence the King to allow the Jewish people to defnd themselves against the destructive plans of Haman, but the very means by which Haman wished to kill Mordecai (the gallows) was how he himself was killed.
A tradition has developed that when the story of Purim is told, everytime the name of Haman is mentioned noisemakers are sounded and everyone says, " booooh!" I imagine that some similar action could be enacted in telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Everytime the name of Pharoah is mentioned eveyone could booooh and hiss. This would certainly get the point across, but I never heard of anyone ever doing it.
Shlomo
Yeah see I came back here to edit that, befor you saw it, but once again I am busted by the smartness of shlomo, they broght home a craft from a few weeks ago and looked at it and said OH NO thats not the p word I thought it was ans now I look dumb again. I quit. lol
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